[pkg-wpa-devel] Removal of madwifi driver backend support

[Darren Albers]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>>
>> Could perhaps the kernel team share their thoughts on the status of the
>> madwifi driver? Is it scheduled to be removed from the intrepid kernel?
>>
>
> I think it's unlikely that madwifi will be removed from the
> linux-restricted-modules package for Intrepid, but it may get
> blacklisted by default in favor of the ath5k in-kernel driver. It
> remains to be seen how functional and stable the ath5k driver is.
>
> rtg
> --
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com
>

ath5k works greater with older Atheros card but does not work with the
more recent cards such as the cards shipped on Thinkpads T42 or later.
  The downside to using the ath5k driver is that it detects the cards,
it just doesn't detect anything which will cause a lot of confusion
for normal users.   Is it possible to detect the cards that ath5k
supports and load the module but otherwise use madwifi?

Of course work is ongoing with the ath5k driver so maybe that will
change by the time Intrepid is released.